There wasn’t much in the way of Blackheath Morris, who spent most of the afternoon propping up the bars of the various hostelries visited during this afternoon of dancing in the back-streets of Greenwich, on Sunday 14 October 2007. But it was a fantastic celebration of traditional English culture, so many thanks to Blackheath’s bagman Richard Sanderson and the local side.

The event was the Blackheath Morris End of Season Tour, where the hosts invited a number of Morris sides from southern England to do their stuff outside a number of Greenwich pubs. This may have annoyed a few motorists passing through, but it clearly delighted the local residents.

Click on the photos to open windows with photos at the highest resolution I’m prepared to post here given my limited bandwidth allocation, and hover your cursor over the pictures for captions.

The pictures were taken with a digital SLR camera, but I left the thing on automatic as I was a bit tired and emotional at the time, and am not used to taking action shots. As they say, you should never work with children or animals, and to this list I add Morris dancers. Still, a few of the shots came out well, especially after I’d cropped them a bit.

Oh, I forgot; there’s one more, and it comes with a health warning…

When I go about my daily business in London I’m struck by how heavy of heart many people look. Or at least indifferent to life. But when I see people Morris dancing there’s joy and laughter that comes from somewhere deep inside.